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Mifflin Street at Capitol Square

Date: 1955
Description: Bus traveling down Mifflin Street on Capitol Square. Moseleys, Woldenbergs and Walgreen's Drugs are on the right.
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Parade on the Square

Date: 1952
Description: Slightly elevated view of a parade on the Capitol Square, celebrating a visit by Adlai Stevenson, Democratic candidate for President.
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Knights of Columbus Women's Group

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: Large group of Knights of Columbus women, standing in front of buses made to look like railroad cars. They are returning from a convention held in Racine.
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Knights of Columbus Women's Group

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: Large group of Knights of Columbus women, standing in front of buses made to look like railroad cars, returning from a convention held in Racine.
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Ravine Bridge

Date: 1955
Description: A public bus crosses the bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood, looking east.
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Madison Bus Company

Date: 1958
Description: The Madison Bus Company, 166 Fair Oaks Avenue.
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Looking North From Capitol Square

Date: 03 1954
Description: Elevated view looking north from the Wisconsin State Capitol down Hamilton Street. The Belmont Hotel and various storefronts are along Capitol Square.
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Flooding at Nakoma Bus Stop

Date: 03 13 1950
Description: A woman is standing at a bus stop at the end of Monroe Street, the entrance to Nakoma, where puddles from melting snow cause water from passing traffic to ...
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Marquette School Girl Scouts Ready for Trip to Milwaukee

Date: 04 11 1950
Description: Twenty-one members of the Marquette School Girl Scout troop pose by a bus for a trip to Milwaukee.
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Newsboys Bus Trip

Date: 05 29 1950
Description: 101 Madison Newspapers, Inc. carrier boys from Madison and southwestern Wisconsin stand by three charter buses before the start of their trip to the Memori...
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"Let's Go North For A South Victory"

Date: 08 17 1950
Description: Three students and two adults are shown making arrangements for the chartering of a bus to take Madison high school students on a chaperoned trip to Green ...
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Robert Garvey, Bus Driver

Date: 08 31 1955
Description: Portrait of Robert P. Garvey, a bus driver for the Madison Bus Company, seated behind the steering wheel.
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Bus Fire

Date: 05 01 1951
Description: A Madison fire truck parks at the scene of a Greyhound bus fire at the corner of East Main Street and South Pinckney Street in front of the S.S. Kresge sto...
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Mobile Civil Defense Test

Date: 10 31 1951
Description: Elevated view of some of the 125 vehicles which were used in Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. The vehicles are parked on ...
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Mobile Civil Defense Test

Date: 10 31 1951
Description: Elevated view of the 125 vehicles which were used in Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. The vehicles were parked on Monona ...
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Mobile Civil Defense Test

Date: 10 31 1951
Description: Lineup of parade vehicles at Law Park along Lake Monona for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison.
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Operation Badger Air Force Recruits

Date: 12 06 1951
Description: Pvt. Tom Voigt, Ixonia (at right), one of forty-seven "Operation Badger" Air Force recruits sworn in at Madison, shakes hands with his father, Ray Voigt (r...
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Newspaper Carriers Trip to Indianapolis Race

Date: 05 29 1952
Description: One hundred eighteen newspaper carrier boys ready to board four buses in front of the Madison Newspaper building on Carroll Street for a trip to Indianapol...
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Newspaper Carriers Trip to Indianapolis Race

Date: 05 29 1952
Description: Three newspaper carriers riding in Studebaker duplicate of the official pace car for the Indianapolis 500 mile race in front of the buses that took one hun...
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Mineral Point Racers

Date: 07 20 1952
Description: Fifteen derby boys and four adults from Mineral Point who came to Madison for the Madison Soap Box Derby are standing in front of their school bus. Larry L...

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